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* Public Replication File for:
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* Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon
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* "The effect on turnout of campaign mobilization messages addressing ballot
* secrecy concerns: A replication experiment"
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* (Forthcoming, PLOS ONE)
* 
* Date: 21 July 2017
* Version: 2.0
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This replication archive contains the following files:

DOCUMENTATION FILE:
1. This file (README.txt) documenting the files in the replication archive

DATA FILE:
2. PublicReplicationData.dta is the dataset (Stata 12 format) used by the analysis program

PROGRAM FILE (Stata .do files):
3. Analysis.do is a Stata .do file that executes the analyses reported in the paper and in S1 Appendix

LOG FILES:
4. Analysis.log is a log file showing the output from Analysis.do

OUTPUT FILES:
5. Table1_and_TableA3_RegressionEstimates.xls -- Produces output for Table 1 in the manuscript and Table A3 in S1 Appendix
6. TableA1_RandomizationCheck.xls -- Produces Table A1 in S1 Appendix
7. TableA2_BalanceTable.xls -- Produces Table A2 in S1 Appendix

NOTE: The Stata packages -outreg2- and -outsum- are required. Lines 19 and 20 in Analysis.do are included to check whether these packages are installed and, if not, to install these packages.


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* SUMMARY OF VERSION CHANGES
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v1.0 (20 Jul 2017) -- Initial version/upload 

v2.0 (21 Jul 2017) -- Added note in README and lines 19-20 in Analysis.do to provide user with info/code to install Stata packages outreg2 and outsum which are needed to produce output files. Fixed 'hhid' variable in PublicReplicationData.dta (prior version incorrectly had missing values due to data cleaning coding error). Replication script was re-run; output files produced are included in this update.

